Figure toy



July 28, 1925.

WITNESSES 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 July 28, 1925. 1,547,967

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Uro/mers Patented July 28, 1925.

WILLIAM sHILHAN', orr Yoann. y.

r'IGURnY Toy. i

Application mea may 24, '1921.1 A'serial No. 472,031.

To all whom t may' concern: Be it known that I, WILLIAM SHILHAN, acitizen of the United States, and 'aresident of the city of New York,Welfare Island, borough of Manhattan, in the county of 'New YorkandStateofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Figure Toy, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements 1n toys, an object of theinvention being to provide a toy which can be sold in the form of ablank having a plurality of fold lines displayed thereon and which maybe assembled by the purchaser. y A further object is to provide a toywhich will be difficult to assemble and therefore inter-esting andamusing` to children, and a toy which will be simple and practical inconstruction, neat and attractive in appearance, and exceedinglyinexpensive to manufacture.

With these and other obj ects in view, the

invention consists in certain novel featuresv of construction andcombinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafterdescribed and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of theblank completely folded to form a toy Figure 2 is a plan view of theblan Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the first steps of foldingthe blank;

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing the blank in partially foldedposition; and

Figure 5 is a similar view illustrating the blank almost completelyfolded.

Referring in detail to the drawings, 1 represents a square blank uponone face of which, certain fragments of a picture such as 2 aredisplayed. The blank is scored or creased to provide a plurality of foldlines which will be hereinafter described, and when the blank isproperly folded, the picture will be assembled and the completed articleseen in Figure 1 will have the appearance and general form of a bird orother animal.

It is to be understood that the particular method of folding the blankshown in the drawings is merely illustrative of one 0f many ways inwhich my invention may be accomplished and that I wish to protect theidea of printing, lithographing, painting, or otherwise displayingpictures of a represen- -tation of van animal or other ligure upon ablank and then foldingthe Vblank .to form the completed toy figure; 1

"Referring now more specifically .to the particular -blank illustratedin the drawings,

it will' be seen that the squareblank 1 is provided with a pair of maindiagonal fold lines 3, 3. Fold lines 4 and 4 connect the intermediatepoints of opposite sides of the sheet and intersect the diagonal foldlines at the center of the sheet. Midway between the fold lines 4 andthe edges of the sheet, fold lines 5, 5 are provided extending inparallelism with the fold line 4. Similar lines 5, 5 are parallel withthe line 4 The ends of the lines 4 and 4 are connected by fold lines 6.The adjacent ends of the lines 5 and 5 are connected by short fold lines7 extending across the corners of the sheet and in parallelism with thelines 6. Fold lines 8 parallel to the lines 6 and 7 connect the pointsof inter-section of the lines 4 and 5 and the lines 4 and 5.

To produce the finished toy, the blank is first folded on all of thelines 6 and the corners of the blank are then folded back upon the lines7, as illustrated in Figure 3.

The lsheet is then folded simultaneously f along several lines. It isfolded inwardly on they ends of the line 4, under on the intermediateportion of the. line 4, inwardly on those portions of the lines 5 whichare indicated at 5, and under on the intermediate portion of one line 5.The portions'of the sheet which include the opposite ends of the line 4are folded in opposite directions away from the plane of theintermediate portion of this line. The entire blank is then foldedinwardly upon the lines 8 and is of the shape seen in Figure 1. Thecompletely folded blank includes a main body portion 9, upon which thebody of the animal appears, a forwardly presented extension 10 at itsupper end upon which the head of the animal appears and a rearwardlyextendin portion 11 whereon the animals tail is disp ayed. When foldedas described the toy may be stood in an upright position on a suitablesupport by resting the same upon the lower end of the body portion andupon the edge of the tail section 11 defined by the folding line 4.

Many designs might be substituted for the one illustrated. Numerousexpedients might be resorted to in folding and scoring the blank.Therefore although I have illnstrated one of the preferred embodimentsof my invention it will be apparent that various slight changes andalterations might be made in the general form and arrangement of theparts described Without departing from the invention and hence I do notWish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but shallconsider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterationsas fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of the appended claim` Iclaim:

For forming a substantially flat toy With representations of objectsrespectively on the opposite sides thereof, a blank having separatedparts of two objects on one face thereof, fold lines upon Which theblank is to be folded and refolded in the formation of the toy With theseparated parts in ob* ject forming relationship, there being relativelydiagonal groups of substantially parallel fold lines between Which theseparated parts of the objects are located, said blank being foldableand refoldable along certain of the parallel lines to providerectangularly disposed folds surrounding a central portion, said foldsand central portion being foldable-npon themselves respectively on theremaining fold linesV to complete the toy.

WILLIAM sHILHAN. -Y

